Yeah, I’ve laid off the booze. Missus is worried about my fatty liver, and I have to agree with her. Not cutting out completely, but definitely curtailing it. We’re having a cocktail party with the gang on Sunday, and that will be my first booze for a week.

And Friday? Missus gets a root canal. I’ve been refraining from reminding her that I’ve never had so much as a cavity in my life.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the probe into whether Walker’s campaign illegally coordinated with those groups about the spending. Randa also ordered prosecutors to destroy all their evidence.

Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to stay the injunction on Wednesday.

Chisholm argued that the order to destroy evidence conflicts is premature and Randa ignored a request for a hearing.

So true.
And the temps they will be traveling in today vary widely. It’s 87 F in Vilonia and will only be in the 60s F when he arrives here in CA today. We are quite cool and tonight will be even cooler.

Mr. 57 signed a card from the pups this morning but neglected Kasper, so I whined. Mr. 57 later said, “Kasper signed – just look.” And he had written KASPER in big red letters on the left hand side of the card. Do they think I was born yesterday?

In the week since announcing it was banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life, with the hopes of getting approval from the league’s owners to force him to sell the team, little has been known of the NBA’s exact legal strategy.

While the league’s constitution, publicly revealed for the first time by the league last Tuesday, made it clear that grounds exist to remove an owner if that owner “fail(s) or refuse(s) to fulfill its contractual obligations to the Association,” it remained unclear what contracts Sterling might have violated when he made his racist statements in a private conversation with his mistress V. Stiviano that was later published by TMZ.

But sources with knowledge of the league’s strategy say there are, in fact, actual contracts that it will maintain Sterling violated should he choose to fight the league’s desire to force him to sell the team if the league can get the required 75 percent of owners to agree to make the move.

One of those documents, which Sterling signed when he first bought the Clippers in 1981, and signed various amended versions since, states that an owner will not take any position or action that will materially and adversely affect a team or the league. Owners also sign morals clauses, which state that they will be upheld to the highest standard of ethical and moral behavior. When morals clauses are enacted and result in termination of agreements, including endorsement deals, the courts are often charged with interpreting who was right, but sources with knowledge of the NBA’s legal strategy believe that they have enough to force Sterling to sell…….”

the comments!!!!!!! – screaming that the Press is left wing – in the pocket of the President – doesn’t ask about Benghazi!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Folks are surely paid to troll the intertubes and post the stupid.

“As sea levels rise along the New York City waterfront, “100-year” storm surges may eventually happen as often as every three years, with more chances of Sandy-like damage if the city doesn’t rebuild its borders. One redesign under consideration now: Big U, a 10-mile long shield of parks and community spaces that would help protect Manhattan neighborhoods from flooding.

The design is focused as much on the everyday needs of local neighborhoods as on flood protection–an approach that’s very different than how infrastructure has been built in the past. In New Orleans after Katrina, floodwalls were made to meet engineering criteria, not social needs. And New York has its own long past of large-scale projects that focused more on efficiency than people.

“In the history of New York with the legacy of Robert Moses, most of the infrastructure–whether that’s highways or parks–have generally been imposed without a lot of regard for existing community fabric,” says Jeremy Siegel, who led the Big U project. “If you’re going to be investing so much money into an infrastructure for resiliency–that’s going to be sitting along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world–there’s a huge opportunity there to also improve civic infrastructure, so it can protect the city, but also become a platform for civic life,” he adds……”

De-lurking to wish 57 & LDS happy birthday!! Too much family drama going on to comment much right now, but TOD is one place I come to help me stay centered. Thanks to everyone who contributes here, whether blog tyrants or just commentators. <3

President Barack Obama is set to deliver remarks and receive an honor presented by Steven Spielberg at a USC Shoah Foundation event, the organization said …

“President Obama’s commitment to democracy and human rights has long been felt,” said Spielberg in a statement announcing the news. “As a constitutional scholar and as president, his interest in expanding justice and opportunity for all is remarkably evident.”

The Founding Fathers were wealthy slave owners…can never really get over that part….reminds me a speech that Justice Marshall gave commemorating the 200th birthday of the Constitution…

“The men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 could not have envisioned these changes. They could not have imagined, nor would they have accepted, that the document they were drafting would one day be construed by a Supreme Court to which had been appointed a woman and the descendent of an African slave. We the People” no longer enslave, but the credit does not belong to the Framers. It belongs to those who refused to acquiesce in outdated notions of “liberty,” “justice,” and “equality,” and who strived to better them.”

It was, and still is, the schism between the North and South: the allowing for slavery and the odious 3/5th was a ‘compromise’ or the Southern states would not have become part of the Union. Many of the Founding Fathers did not want slavery.

Almost every one of the 230-plus House Republicans is clamoring to be among the seven members placed on the Benghazi select committee.

Multiple Hill reporters tweeted that 206 congressional GOPers had requested a seat on the committee. House leadership aides said Tuesday that the committee would have seven Republicans and five Democrats.

Judith, the Dems need to be present and then the Dems need to tell the MSM what a travesty this witchhunt is. We already know we can’t rely on MSM to speak up for us – we must do it ourselves and LOUDLY!

I am glad to see that not all the people from the red states are crazy racists idiots. I’m sure if you were to read some comments there will be those who can’t put aside their hate for this President even in times like this.

LL, maybe let these people know the clock is ticking. We have a window of opportunity here to make massive, concrete and long-lasting changes for the good of all. That window closes a little bit each day. The ONLY way we can make the best of what is left is to give PBO a democratic majority in House and Senate. You know that, I know that, but tell them, and keep telling them! Thank you.

It sure is FLOTUS. #Bring Back Our Girls. What is so shameful is the leader of Nigeria let things get this far. He should have ask for help along time ago to get rid of those terrorists. I know POTUS would have done what ever he could to help, before something like this happen.